The Scorpion Rules

by Erin Bow

Book, 2015

Publication

Margaret K. McElderry Books (2015), 384 pages

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: The main character (cisgender girl) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: Greta is a Duchess and a Crown Princess. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto ruler of the world, the great Artificial Intelligence, Talis. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Start a war and your hostage dies...Greta will be free if she can make it to her eighteenth birthday... But everything changes when Elian arrives at the Precepture. He’s a hostage from a new American alliance, and he defies the machines that control every part of their lives—and is severely punished for it. His rebellion opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the rules they live under, and to the subtle resistance of her companions...

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